Challenges to Masculine Transformation among Urban Low-Income African American Males

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 732-741

  Aronson, Robert E ^a   Whitehead, Tony L ^b   Baber, Willie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FATHER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MASCULINITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN POPULATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FAMILY HEALTH; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MARRIAGE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SELF HELP; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CASE MANAGEMENT; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; FAMILY HEALTH; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FATHERS; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PARENTING; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 0038317635     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.5.732     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Wilson WJ. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press; 1996.
2. Fullilove M, Fullilove R. Intersecting epidemics: black teen crack use and sexually transmitted disease. J Am Med Womens Assoc. 1989;44:146-153.
3. Goldstein PJ. Analysis of drugs and homicide. In: Block CR, Block R, eds. Trends, Risks and Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group. Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice; 1994. National Institute of Justice Research Report.
4. Hamid A. The political economy of crack-related violence. Contemp Drug Probl. 1990;17:31-78.
5. Harrell A, Peterson G, eds. Drugs, Crime and Social Isolation: Barriers to Urban Opportunity. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press; 1992.
6. Hicks BB, Wilson GA, eds. Kids, Crack and the Community: Reclaiming Drug-Exposed Infants and Children. Bloomington, Ind: National Education Service; 1993.
7. Inciardi JA. Kingrats, chicken heads, slow necks, freaks, and blood suckers: a glimpse at the Miami sex-for-crack market. In: Ratner MS, ed. Crack Pipe as Pimp. New York, NY: Lexington Books; 1993:37-67.
8. Jonnes J. Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance With Illegal Drugs. New York, NY: Scribner; 1996.
9. Maloney-Harmon PA, Czerwinski SJ. Caught in the crossfire: children, guns and trauma. Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 1994;3:525-533.
10. May JP. Feeding a public health epidemic. In: May JP, Pitts KR, eds. Building Violence: How America's Rush to Incarcerate Creates More Violence. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications; 2000:132-137.
11. Whitehead T. The "epidemic" and "cultural leg-ends" of black male incarceration: the socialization of African American children to a life of incarceration. In: May JP, Pitts KR, eds. Building Violence: How America's Rush to Incarcerate Creates More Violence. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications; 2000:82-89.
12. Whitehead T. Urban low-income African American men, HIV/AIDS, and gender identity. Med Anthropol Q. 1997;11:411-447.
13. Freidenberg J. Growing Old in El Barrio. New York, NY: New York University Press; 2000.
14. Rocheleau D. Gendered landscapes, gendered lives in Zambrana-Chacue, Dominican Republic. In: Guijt I, Shah M, eds. The Myth of the Community: Gender Issues in Participatory Development. London, England: Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd; 1998.
15. Spradley JP. The Ethnographic Interview. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 1979.
16. Whitehead T. Expressions of masculinity in a Jamaican sugartown: implications for family planning programs. In: Whitehead T, Reid B, eds. Gender Constructs and Social Issues. Chicago, Ill: University of Illinois Press; 1992.
17. McLeroy KR, Bibeau D, Steckler A, Glanz K. An ecological perspective on health promotion programs. Health Educ Q. 1988;15:351-377.
18. Richard LR, Potvin L, Kishchuk N, Prlic H, Green L. Assessment of the integration of the ecological approach in health promotion programs. Am J Health Promot. 1996;10:318-328.
19. Stokols D. Translating social ecological theory into guidelines for community health promotion. Am J Health Promot. 1996;10:282-298.
20. Whitehead T. Breakdown, resolution and coherence: the fieldwork experiences of a big, brown, pretty-talking man in a West Indian Community. In: Whitehead T, Conawy M, eds. Self, Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork. Urbana: University of Illinois Press; 1986.
21. Whitehead T, Peterson J, Kaljee L. The "hustle": socioeconomic deprivation, urban drug trafficking, and low-income African American male gender identity. Pediatrics. 1994;93:1050-1054.
22. Wilson PJ. Crab Antics: The Social Anthropology of English Speaking Societies of the Caribbean. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press; 1973.
23. Stack C. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New York, NY: Harper and Row; 1974.
24. Bourgois P. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 1995.
25. Wasserman H, Danforth HE. The Human Bond: Support Groups and Mutual Aid. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Co; 1988.
26. Alvidrez J. Ethnic variations in mental health attitudes and service use among low-income African American, Latina, and European American young women. Community Ment Health J. 1999;35:515-530.
27. Biegel DE, Johnsen JA, Shafran R. Overcoming barriers faced by African-American families with a family member with mental illness. Fam Relat. 1997;46:163-178.
28. Lane R. Black Philadelphia then and now: the underclass of the late 20th century compared with poorer Africa-Americans of the late 19th century. In: Harrell A, Peterson G, eds. Drugs, Crime and Social Isolation: Barriers to Urban Opportunity. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press; 1992.
29. Massey D, Denton N. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press; 1993.
30. Wilson WJ. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press; 1987.
31. Offner P, Holzer H. Left Behind in the Labor Market: Recent Employment Trends Among Young Black Men. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution; 2002.